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Hacking group Anonymous has defaced a website of San Francisco's rail transport company.

Anonymous hacked the website in protest at the rail company's decision to disable mobile phone transmitters to hamper protests.

Bay Area Rapid Transport (Bart) took the decision on 11 August to thwart demonstrators planning to use mobile phones to co-ordinate protests against the killing of a man by transit police in July.

Anonymous retaliated by defacing Mybart.org, and posting online details of more than 2,000 of the site's users. Bart's main website, Bart.gov, was unaffected, according to the BBC.

In a message posted on the defaced website, the hacktivist group said: "We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency. Bart has proved multiple times that they have no problem exploiting and abusing the people."

The group has responded to criticism from Mybart.org users about the publication of their details online, by saying their anger should be directed at Bart for not ensuring their personal data was secure.

At the weekend, Anonymous also sympathised with rioters in England, describing the demonstrations as "a product of decades of neglect inflicted on your country by various governments," according to the Guardian.

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